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Opening people's snail mail is a bit too conspicuous to happen on a large scale without causing an outcry. Imagine everyone started getting their letters delive
by kijin 15y ago
Opening people's snail mail is a bit too conspicuous to happen on a large scale without causing an outcry. Imagine everyone started getting their letters delivered with a torn envelope re-sealed with FBI tape. There'd be riots.
So I guess GP's point can be expressed more accurately as: Throughout much of our nation's history, law enforcement had no way to track people's communications on such a massive scale as they are trying to do now.
- slug 15y agoAs if you cannot read through paper through other means besides opening an envelope. I imagine that it would be problematic to read all snail mail, but if they have machines to read the destination address in a serial fashion, there's always the possibility of tagging along another machine next to it or even embedded on the previous one to read the contents inside the envelopes with something not in the electromagnetic visible range.